I wrote to CZUB and asked about when the CZ 75 75th Anniversary pistol might be available, below is a copy of the responce:
Dear Mr Niehaus,
First of all we want to thank you for your meritorious and beneficial activities in the CZForum.
This Forum now looks as totally upgraded, revamped, and is very modern and well-arranged.
So here is the answer to your inquiry regarding the CZ 75th Anniversary model particulars:
The CZ 75th is still in production and currently is not released for sale. This model is planned to be launched on the market at the Autumn of this year, no fix date is set so far. In total these pistols will be made in 6 batches with 75 pieces each. Division into six batches takes into account six Continents into which Česká zbrojovka for 75 years of its existence expanded and still expands. So available will be following batches of pistols chambered in 9 mm Luger:
1. Europe
2. North America
3. South America
4. Asia
5. Africa
6. Australia
For CZ-USA there will be a special version of anniversary model embellished with engravings and built on a design of the current CZ 75 B pistol.
The specifications for the CZ 75th Anniversary model will be as follows:
Overall appearance: Copy of the original CZ 75 as it was in 1975
Cal.: 9 x 19
Magazine capacity: 16
Trigger mechanism operation: SA/DA
Frame: Steel
Grip panels: Aluminium, anodized (retro-version), black colour
Sights: Fixed
Overall length: 206 mm
Barrel length: 114 mm
Height: 138 mmWidth: 35 mmWeight: 1 000 g
Barrel: hammer forged, glossy finish, stainless surface treatment, frame and slide burnished, controls in glossy finish.
Safety features: Manual safety, safety notch on the hammer, firing pin block.
Once again many thanks for your work you do for the CZForum website. Please feel free to ask any questions you consider to be of even the slightes interest of the CZForum visitors or CZ firearm users, fans and connoisseurs.
Yours faithfully,
Ing. Richard Velisek Milan Kubele
Product Manager - Handguns Translations &
Info@czub.cz Marketing
ČESKÁ ZBROJOVKA A.S.
SVATOPLUKA ČECHA 1283
688 27 UHERSKÝ BROD, CZECH REPUBLIC
Fax : +420 572 633 811
Mail :
INFO@CZUB.CZ WWW.CZUB.CZ This letter and the compliment along with the information from CZUB regarding the 75th Anniversary, could not have happened without the help, advise, encouragement from Kev Rees. Ken was one of the Founding Fathers of the CZForum some 10? years ago as I have said before. Along with some others, which I will name if they let me, (So far I believe that Angus Hobdell, Otto N Sure, Widge, DenStinett, RFwobbly and Walt Sherrill) he and they started something that would grow and help put CZ's on the Pistol Map of the US. You won't recognise some of these SN because they belong to the other Forum) They spent many long years building the CZForum and with little or no recognition as near as I can tell from reading through their Archives. This is as much their letter as it is mine, Angryvikingman, DeeDubya and b5.5dan's our moderators.And yourselves our members.
Thank you each and everyone.